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February 16, 2026

Sports

BEST MRHS GIRLS SWIM SEASON EVER

Mustang girls finish as state Group B finalist SEWELL – The Mainland Regional High School girls swimming team finished its best season ever Sunday night, making it to the state finals for the first time in school history after securing only the team’s second South Jersey championship 12 days earlier. The girls lost in the […]

MUSTANG BOYS & GIRLS SCORE CAL HOOPS TITLES

ONE SATURDAY AFTERNOON, BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONSHIPS Mainland boys upset everyone, take O.T. thriller over the Prep GALLOWAY – The Mainland Regional boys basketball team pulled off the unthinkable Saturday afternoon, stunning St. Augustine Prep 58-56 for the Cape-Atlantic League championship.  “It’s unbelievable,” head coach Dan Williams said. “I have to believe that some of it is, being […]

Ocean City girls basketball team: Don’t renew coaches’ contracts

Players tell school board coaches have been ‘demeaning,’ ‘disrespectful’ OCEAN CITY — About a dozen members of the Ocean City High School girls basketball team stood before the Board of Education on Wednesday night and asked that their coaches’ contracts not be renewed for next season. They offered complaints including being “verbally degraded, bullied, sworn […]

OCHS swimmers end 60-year dry spell

Boys win sectional first time since 1962; coach McGrath was a man with a plan SEE RELATED STORY SEWELL — The spectators at the NJSIAA South Jersey boys swimming final Thursday between Ocean City’s Red Raiders and Moorestown’s Quakers could be forgiven for thinking the results were up in the air until the final event, […]

‘It feels amazing’: Hard work pays off for Red Raiders

SEWELL — Twenty-six morning weight-lifting sessions. More than 80 practices. Hard work every day for months. It all added up to the first sectional championship for the Ocean City High School boys swim team since 1962. On Thursday evening, the Red Raiders were crowned the 2022 South Jersey Public B champions and it made them […]

MRHS swimmers power past CHW

Mustang girls win first sectional title since 2013 season SEE RELATED STORY SEWELL — The Cherry Hill West girls swim team upset Moorestown and Clearview to make it the South Jersey Public B finals Wednesday, Feb. 16, but CHW was no match for the Mustang girls, who put in the performance of the tournament to […]

Mustang swimmers ecstatic with victory

SEWELL — Two years ago, the Mainland Mustang girls swim team made it to the South Jersey Public B finals but fell to the powerhouse Moorestown Quakers.  A year ago, despite having an unbeaten regular season, there was no sectional tournament. Restrictions from the COVID-19 pandemic put the kibosh on it, not giving the girls a […]

Mustang boys swimmers defeat TRS in quarterfinals

LINWOOD – The Mainland Mustang boys breezed through their quarterfinal swim meet Friday afternoon, leading Toms River South from start to finish before winning 116-54. The Mustangs, the No. 3 seed, were 10-2 as they traveled to No. 2 seed Moorestown Tuesday evening after the Sentinel sports section went to press to decide who would […]

Atlantic City High School Vikings cheerleaders liven up the house

During Atlantic City High School’s home basketball games, the Vikings cheerleaders keep the house jumping with cheers from the bleachers throughout the games and routines on the court during breaks in the action. Here the girls perform during last week’s game between the hometown Vikings and the visiting Mainland Regional High School girls basketball team. […]

Bretones leads Mainland girls basketball over Atlantic City Vikings

ATLANTIC CITY – The Atlantic City High School girls had the height and power to get their shots off against visiting Mainland Regional Friday night, but the Mustang defense kept them off balance all game so too many of those shots turned into near misses. The last time around, the Mustangs had to come from […]